Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is the Founder and President of the Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation (LAAF.org), a private operating foundation with a mission to inspire, educate and empower people to give in a way that matters more. Operating as a philanthropic innovation lab, LAAF uses technology innovations to globally scale philanthropy education–creating and disseminating resources and scaling programs that advance the educational, individual and institutional fields of philanthropy to increase impact.

Jim is the Founder/CEO of Breyer Capital, an innovative investment and venture philanthropy firm and a Partner at Accel Partners, a leading venture capital firm. Jim has been a lead/co-lead venture investor in over 30 internet/technology companies, many that have returned well over 25 times their cost. Jim led Accel’s investment in Facebook in 2005, and served on the board until 2013.

Jean Case is an actively engaged philanthropist, investor and a pioneer in the world of interactive technologies. Her career in the private sector spanned nearly two decades before she and her husband, Steve Case, created the Case Foundation in 1997. A passionate believer in all things digital and the amazing potential of technology to change the world for the better, Jean and her team focus the efforts of the Foundation around many of the same entrepreneurial approaches she and Steve cultivated throughout their business careers. The Case Foundation is recognized for its innovative efforts to address significant social challenges, harnessing the best impulses of entrepreneurship, innovation, technology and collaboration to drive exponential impact.

Somesh Dash is a Silicon Valley-based technology investor. He works for Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), a leading technology-focused Venture Capital fund. He focuses primarily on investments in Internet, software, mobile and technology-enabled services companies. Somesh led or participated in IVP’s investments in Akamai, Business Insider, CafePress, Clearspring Technologies, comScore, Danger, Dropbox, Fleetmatics, Klout, LivingSocial, mySQL, Netflix, Personal Capital, Quigo, Shazam, Twitter and Zynga. He is also an advisor to a number of early stage technology companies.

Susan Ford Dorsey is President of the Sand Hill Foundation, a family foundation established by the Ford family in 1995. As President, Mrs. Dorsey directs the philanthropic activities of the foundation, including proposal reviews, site visits and program evaluation. The Sand Hill Foundation is dedicated to preserving our natural environment and improving the lives of families in San Mateo and northern Santa Clara counties. It invests in leaders and organizations that demonstrate clarity of purpose and a deep desire for lasting transformation.

Shiv is the Chairman of The Global Education & Leadership Foundation (www.tgelf.org), which identifies, nurtures and supports ethical altruistic leadership potential at schools and colleges. The program reaches about 2,500,000 schoolchildren in 14 countries, and has trained over 70,000 teachers and around the world. Shiv is also a Trustee of The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation; a founding contributor to the Indian School of Business and the Public Health Foundation of India.

Xin Liu is the co-founder and president of the Enlight Foundation, as well as director and co-founder of Xinping Foundation in China. Her philanthropy work focuses on creating equal educational opportunities for children in developing countries, grooming social entrepreneurs and change makers among youth, and supporting action driven research projects to advance education in developing countries, especially in China.

Burton J. McMurtry has been a Silicon Valley venture capital investor since 1969. He co-founded several venture capital partnerships, including Technology Venture Investors (TVI) and Institutional Venture Associates. Portfolio companies included Adaptec, Altera, Compaq, Intuit, KLA-Tencor, Linear Technology Corporation, Microsoft, NBI, Nellcor, PMC Sierra, Quantum, ROLM Corporation, SpectraLink, Sun Microsystems, Synopsys, Triad Systems Corporation, VeriFone, and Visio. Mr. McMurtry formerly chaired the board of trustees of Stanford University.

Bill Meehan is a regular writer and speaker on nonprofit strategy, governance, performance measurement, philanthropy and the role of the internet and impact investing. At Stanford, he is a founding member of the Advisory Council of the Center for Philanthropy and the Civil Society and a member of the Arts Initiative Council.

Regina K. Scully is the Founder and CEO of Artemis Rising Foundation, a philanthropic organization dedicated to developing and promoting media, education and healing projects that transform our culture. Ms. Scully also is the Founder and CEO of RPR Marketing Communications, a premier Public Relations Agency, NYC, specializing in exclusive consumer products and brands. Ms. Scully is a social entrepreneur, education activist, and documentary Filmmaker.